Employment Opportunities

The World Will Need 637,000 More Pilots in the Next Two Decades

By

Kyunghee Park

February 6, 2018, 1:00 PM HST

Bloomberg

More and more people are getting ready to travel by plane. Who is going to fly them?Airlines, especially those in Asia, have ordered new aircraft worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the past few years as rising incomes boost travel numbers to a record. This has led to a shortage of experienced pilots, a situation that looks set to worsen. The world will need 637,000 more pilots in the two decades through 2036, Boeing predicts.

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